Medieval, Early Modern and 18th Century Satirists
- Obeid e zakani (?–1370) - Akhlaq al-Ashraf (Ethics of the Aristocracy)
- Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375) - The Decameron
- Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343–1400) - The Canterbury Tales
- Gil Vicente (c. 1465-1536)
- Desiderius Erasmus (1466–1536) - The Praise of Folly
- François Rabelais (c. 1493–1553) - Gargantua, Pantagruel
- Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) - Don Quixote
- Luis de Góngora (1561–1627)
- Francisco de Quevedo (1580–1645)
- Juan de Tassis y Peralta, 2nd Count of Villamediana (1582–1622)
- Martin Marprelate (true identity unknown) - Marprelate Tracts
- Samuel Butler (1612–1680) - Hudibras
- Molière (1622–1673)
- John Stockton (1631–1700)
- John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester (1647–1680)
- Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) - Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal, A Tale of a Tub
- John Gay (1685–1732) - The Beggar's Opera
- Alexander Pope (1688–1744)
- Voltaire (1694–1778) - Candide
- James Bramston (1694–1744)
- William Hogarth (1697–1764) - Beer Street and Gin Lane
- Henry Fielding (1707–1754)
- Laurence Sterne (1713–1768) - The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
- James Beresford (1764–1840) - The Miseries of Human Life
- Ivan Krylov (1769-1844)
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